> >massive enough
> >to change the result -- of which there is no substantive evidence,
> And you know this how?
I don't know that there wasn't fraud. What I do know is that there hasn't been any compelling evidence put forward -- where I've seen it anyway -- that there *was* extensive fraud.
Dr Johnson observes somewhere, "I know two reasons for belief: evidence and inclination." Inclination seems to be hard at work here.
> >then it seems pretty clear that a substantial majority of Iranians
> >*don't* "want a secular government."
>
> It seems pretty clear that a substantial number of people are risking
> bodily injury or worse to say that they do.
No question about that. But do the relative numbers matter? Or don't they?
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